| 单词 | attributive |
| 释义 | attributive From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishGrammarattributiveat‧trib‧u‧tive /əˈtrɪbjətɪv/ adjectiveSLGdescribing and coming before a noun. For example, in the phrase ‘big city’, ‘big’ is an attributive adjective, and in the phrase ‘school bus’, ‘school’ is a noun in an attributive position. → predicative —attributively adverbExamples from the Corpusattributive• Third, it is noteworthy that the question appropriate to predicate qualifying position is different from that for the postnominal attributive adjectives.• Parallel to the division of adjunct, we may divide sub-clauses into attributive clauses, predicative clauses and adverbial clauses.• When a quotation is followed by an attributive phrase, the comma is placed within the quotation marks. |
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